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"Maybe some day humanity will gain the wisdom to settle conflicts without sending its youth to kill strangers."

The times, and some of the places, we had been in the war had overlapped, and looking at her face, I knew that if I had seen her there when I was flying as a helicopter gunner, I would have killed her. She had been a target and a threat to me, the ghost under the canopy of leaves, and I had been monstrous and mechanical to her, the sky elementally reconfigured into noise and terror.